Six: Leading Seaman S. J. Gee, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (S. J. Gee, Ord., H.M.S. Goliath.), officially renamed; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (198421 S. J. Gee, A.B., H.M.S. Diana.); 1914-15 Star (198421, S. J. Gee, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (198421. S. J. Gee, L.S. R.N.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st type (Samuel James Gee.), good very fine (6) £240-£280

Samuel James Gee was born on 30 June 1881 in Abbotsbury, Dorset, and entered naval service on 11 March 1898 as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Impregnable. He served in H.M.S. Goliath from 31 July 1900 until 8 October 1903 and in Diana, having been advanced Able Seaman on 29 July 1902, from 24 November 1908 until 3 February 1911, in which year he was discharged to shore. Re-engaged for war service, he served in H.M.S. Eclipse and Severn, in addition to shore bases, and was demobilised on 8 June 1921. Entering the General Post Office, he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1943 (London Gazette 11 May 1943: ‘Head Porter, London Postal Region’).